compLexity Gaming

compLexity Gaming
Location United States
Founded 2003
Manager(s) Kyle Bautista
Sponsors SoundBlaster
NewEgg
Twitch.tv
DXRacer
G2A.com
Corsair Gaming
Creative Gaming
Pwnit Wear
XPG by ADATA
PowerColor
Divisions Dota 2
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Heroes of Newerth
StarCraft II
Heroes of the Storm
Website www.complexitygaming.com

compLexity Gaming (coL) is a professional American eSports organization that competes in Heroes of the Storm, Call of Duty, Dota 2, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Heroes of Newerth, StarCraft II and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. From 2006 to 2009 they were a franchise of the Championship Gaming Series known as the Los Angeles Complexity. They have previously sponsored players and teams competing in League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Source, Dead or Alive 4, Forza Motorsport 2, FIFA 07, and Smite. compLexity was founded by Jason "1" Lake in 2003 as a Counter-Strike 1.6 clan.

History

logo used from 2003-2016

Complexity was founded in Buckhead, Georgia in 2003 by Jason "1" Lake, a Le Mars, Iowa native who had previously come to Georgia to attend Emory Law School.[1] Lake got into 'Counter-Strike' through his roommate, and soon founded his own team to compete in online CS leagues. Complexity Gaming was first formed in 2003 by Jason "1" Lake, Paolo Bergantino, and Ariel Perez.[2]

In 2007 it became the official Los Angeles franchise for the Championship Gaming Series until 2009 when the league folded. It fielded teams in Project Gotham Racing 3, Counter-Strike 1.6, Call Of Duty, Defense of the Ancients, Quake 4, Day of Defeat, and Day of Defeat: Source. The team was one of the subjects of Michael Kane's 2009 book Game Boys, which chronicled their Counter-Strike rivalry with Team 3D.

The team was a member of the G7 Teams. They were removed after joining the Championship Gaming Series, and were re-added after its demise. They have become a member of the North American eSports scene. They have new CS 1.6 roster which placed first and second in major tournaments, including ESEA CEVO and most recently IEM. They placed third in DreamHack winter. They delved back into Quake with Quake Live where they picked up Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager and Brian "dkt" Flanders. They played Madden NFL 2010, Team Fortress 2, Dota 2, and FIFA 10.

On April 11, 2013, Complexity was the winner of Call of Duty: Black Ops II at ESWC 2013.[3]

On April 6, 2014 coL sold their Call of Duty team to Evil Geniuses.[4]

On March 22, 2015 compLexity announced that they had acquired the Heroes of the Storm team Barrel Boys with a roster of Stafford "McIntyre" McIntyre, Alexei "Blinks" Bazhenov, Drew "Trummel" Trummel, Aaron "Erho" Kappes, Edward "TigerJK" Hong.[5]

compLexity's Dota 2 team was not invited to The International 2015 but qualified in the regional qualifying tournament. compLexity's Dota team is based in a gaming house near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[6]

League of Legends history

2011

On April 29, 2011 compLexity Gaming acquired the players of Epic Charmanders, whose roster consisted of Atlanta, FitterHappier, Gynsingg, Nubbypoohbear, RicePanda, and Shales.[7] compLexity qualified for the League of Legends Championship Series in their inaugural Spring 2013 split, which began in April. During the regular season they finished last in 8th place with a 9-19 record, eliminating them from the Spring Playoffs. Their last place finish meant that they were automatically relegated to the Challenger League instead of playing the LCS Summer Split. In the Challenger League season one coL finished 19-7 in the Ancient Golem Conference, giving them a bye to the playoff semifinals. In the playoffs, they defeated Team Curse, but then lost to Team Coast 3–1 to finish 2nd in the CS. In August, Yuhn, IWillDominate, and Hao joined the team. Atlanta and FitterHappier left. On November 29, Patoy and DontMashMe joined. Yuhn, Shales, and Gynsingg left.[8]

2012

January 1, IWillDominate transferred to Team Dignitas.[9] January 12, RicePanda, Nubbypoohbear, Hao, DontMashMe, and Patoy left the team.[10] During most of 2012 coL did not have a LoL team. On December 6 the team announced a second LoL team, compLexity Academy.[11]

2013

On February 2 compLexity Gaming acquired the roster of The Brunch Club, Nickwu, Lautemortis, Chuuper, MeyeA, Brunch Ü, and Bischu.[12] February, Meteos joins. March 14, Newegg began sponsoring compLexity Gaming.[13] April 2, PR0LLY joins. Chuuper moves to sub.[14] April 20, Brunch U retires, Chuuper moves to AD.[15] On June 17 Nickwu left.[16] On June 18 MegaZero joined.[17] In September Aniratak joined. On October 3, Lautemortis stepped down from starter and captain position.[18] On November 23 PR0LLY left compLexity.[19]

2014

January 9, compLexity released their League of Legends roster.[20] MegaZero, Chuuper, and MeyeA leave.[21] April 29, compLexity.Black becomes compLexity Gaming.[22] June 5, Brokenshard replaced by Kez as starting jungler due to visa complications.[23] October 4, goldenglue joins as starter while ROBERTxLEE and Pr0lly goes to sub position.[24] November 23, Kubz leaves [25] December 23, Westrice leaves and later joined Cloud9.[26]

Current roster

Heroes of the Storm

Nationality ID Name Age Role Join date End of contract Hometown
 United States Blinks Alexei Bazhenov 3/22/2015
 United States Trummel Drew Trummel 3/22/2015 Burlington, North Carolina[27]
 United States TigerJK Edward Hong 3/22/2015 Southern California
 United States Cattlepillar Ben Bunk California

Dota 2

ID Name Pos. Join date
canceL^^ Mihai Antonio 2 2016-09-17
Moo David Hull 3 2016-09-17
Zfreek Zakari Freedman 4 2014-08-27
swindlemelonzz Kyle Freedman 5 2014-08-27

Heroes of Newerth

Nationality ID Name Age Pos. Join date Hometown
 United States Formless Chris Landwehr
 United States WhaT_YoU_GoT Chris Benas
 United States FuzzySloth Noah Landon
 United States Oscah Oscar Chavez
 United States Babaganoush Keven Krajewski

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

Nationality ID Name Age Joined Hometown
 Germany superjj Jan Janßen
 Canada TheJordude Jordan Hong Tai
 United States Waffster Robert Myers 2015-07-22
 Philippines SylvanHunter Grace Naces 2015-09-14
 United Kingdom Sottle Simon Welch 2015-11-04

Sponsored streamers

Nationality ID Name Age Joined Hometown
 Sweden Chessie Rasmus Blondin 23 2015-11-24
 Canada Noxious Kacem Alexandre Khilaji 26 2014-09-26 Montreal, Quebec
 United States Ryzen Ryan Liberian 2015-05-11
 Canada Asia Asia Amore 2015-11-09 Ottawa, Ontario

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Nationality Alias Name Age Joined Hometown
 United Kingdom dephh Rory Jackson 24 2016-01-19
 United States witmer Shawn Taylor 20 2016-03-14
 United Kingdom Surreal Kia Man 19 2016-04-07
 Canada androidx23 Brad Fodor 21 2016-05-03[28]
 Canada Uber Michael Stappels 19 2016-08-03[29]
 United States Warden Matt Dickens 30 2015-08-24
 United States sancz Joshua Ballenger ? 2015-08-24

StarCraft II

Nationality Alias Name Age Race Joined Hometown
 United States qxc Kevin Riley Terran
 Canada hendralisk Henry Zheng ? Zerg Toronto, Ontario
 Canada drunkenboi Henry Luu ? Terran
 United States KoMA Brandon Spinosa Terran
 United States Moosegills Michael Wolff Zerg Madison, Wisconsin
 China
 Canada		 Midday Samuel He Zerg

Former players

Smite

Name Alias
United States David Hance Allied
United States Riley Unzelman Incontinentia
United States Jeremy Branham Jerbie
United States Ismael Torres KikiorNah
United States Kurt Schray Weak3n

League of Legends

Name Alias
United States Kevin Jeon Kez
United States Neil Hammad PR0LLY
United States Robert Lee ROBERTxLEE
United States Royce Newcomb Bubbadub

Dota 2

Name Alias
Sweden Linus Blomdin Limmp
Israel Tal Aizik Fly
Canada David Tan Moonmeander

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

ID Name
United States Alchemixt Dan Walton
Sweden SjoW Jeffrey Bursi
United States Dog David Caero

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Alias Name
United States swag Braxton Pierce
United States anger Todd Williams
Canada SEMPHIS Kory Friesen
United States Hiko Spencer Martin
United States seang@res Sean Gares
United States n0thing Jordan Gilbert
United States valens Soham Chowdhury
United States autimatic Timothy Ta
United States ryx Ronnie Bylicki
United States SicK Hunter Mims
United States roca Daniel Gustaferri
United States shinobi Josh Abastado
United States fRoD[30] Danny Montaner

Counter-Strike: 1.6

Alias Name
United States eng Jonny Faulds
United States zid David Chin
United States Des1re Shawn Khan
United States aZn Kevin Wang
United States sunman Justin Summy
Sweden zet Marcus Sundström
United States Warden Matt Dickens
United States fRoD Danny Montaner
United States Bullseye Sean Morgan
United States tr1p Corey Dodd
United States Rambo Ronald Kim
United States da_bears Erik Stromberg
United States Volcano Sal Garozzo
United States method Mike So
United States pali-1H Robert Tinsey
United States exodus Derek Heidinger
United States hanes Corey Hanes
United States gordon Adam Gordon
United States Ph33R Jonny Schwan
United States noXn Amro Hamza
United States supply Peter Lee
United States hostile Shaun Catron
United States publicenemy Charlie Hartsook
United States 14 Darek Boorn
United States NineSpot Ryan Bell
United States hero Jeff Mettetal
United States evolution Scott Cavallero
United States dRew Andrew Timmerman
United States thomz Thomas Garcia
United States goodfornothing Ediz Basol
France xp3 David Garrido
United States impulsive Derrick Truong

Call of Duty

Alias Name
United States Parasite Chris "Haggy" Duarte
United States Ricky Richard Stacy
United States MiRx Marcus Carter
United States NAMELESS Anthony Wheeler

Dead or Alive 4

Name Alias
United States Megan Ceder beLLE

Fighting games

Name Alias
United States Ryan Ramirez Filipino Champ
United States Long Tran ShadyK
United States Peter Rosas Combofiend
United States Mike Ross Mike Ross

Forza Motorsport 4

Name Alias
United States Javier Gutierrez chavisan
United States CJ Nelson GTO

FIFA 08

Name Alias
United States Felipe Stoyne KreeganBG

Heroes of the Storm

StarCraft: Brood War

Management

Name Alias
United States Jason Lake 1
United States Andy Popkins fro
United States Greg Ferro haticK
United States Andrew Miesner aMies
United States Michael Fleming peawok
United States Matt DiVito divito

References

  1. ↑ Kane, Michael (2008). Game Boys. Viking Press. p. 75.
  2. ↑ Kane, Michael (June 30, 2009). Game Boys: Triumph, Heartbreak, and the Quest for Cash in the Battleground of Competitive Videogaming. Plume.
  3. ↑ "THE AMERICANS COMPLEXITY GAMING WORLD CHAMPIONS OF COD BLACK OPS2". Electronic Sports World Cup. April 11, 2013. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ aMies. "compLexity Sells COD Squad to Evil Geniuses". comLexity Gaming. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ aMies (March 22, 2015). "compLexity Enters the Nexus; Welcomes Heroes of the Storm!". compLexity Gaming. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Enter to Win COMPLEXITY VIP EXPERIENCE Presented by DraftKings!".
  7. ↑ "CompLexity Adds League of Legends". complexitygaming.com. April 29, 2011. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  8. ↑ coL.LoL Roster Changes complexitygaming.com
  9. ↑ IWillDominate Transferred to Dignitas"complexitygaming.com"
  10. ↑ compLexity Releases LoL Team"complexitygaming.com"
  11. ↑ compLexity academy adopts LoL complexitygaming.com
  12. ↑ compLexity Adds League of Legends complexitygaming.com
  13. ↑ Newegg Sponsors Complexity Gaming complexitygaming.com
  14. ↑ coL.LoL Announces Changes complexitygaming.com
  15. ↑ coL.LoL roster changes complexitygaming.com
  16. ↑ Nickwu Twitter Post twitter.com
  17. ↑ Changes to coL.LoL; Nickwu Departs, MegaZero Enters complexitygaming.com
  18. ↑ coL Lautemortis Steps Down
  19. ↑ PR0LLY's Twitter post twitter.com
  20. ↑ Nordmark, Sam 'Wndwrt' (January 10, 2014). "compLexity gaming drops League of Legends roster". onGamers. CBS Interactive. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  21. ↑ compLexity releases their League of Legends roster complexitygaming.com
  22. ↑ coL.Red Released; coL.Black now compLexity.LoLcomplexitygaming.com
  23. ↑ coL.LoL Changes Junglers Due to Visa Complicationscomplexitygaming.com
  24. ↑ http://complexitygaming.com/news/4424/
  25. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/lolkubz/posts/800601026654938
  26. ↑ Westrice's Facebook Update facebook.com
  27. ↑ "Drew Trummel (@coL_Trummel)". Twitter. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
  28. ↑ Miesner, Andrew. "coL.cs Welcomes Brad "androidx23" Fodor!". complexitygaming.com. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  29. ↑ Malachows, Michal. "Uber Joins compLexity CS:GO". HLTV.org. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  30. ↑ Fischer, Annabelle. "FaZe acquire Overwatch roster". theScore eSports. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

External links

Preceded by
Fariko Impact		 Call of Duty Championship winner
2014 		Succeeded by
Denial eSports
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